IFLA Columbus • 13 – 19 August 2016

OCLC in the Digital MarketEric van LubeekManaging Director, OCLC EMEA & APAC

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OCLC supports National Libraries

• 50 NationalLibraries

• 42 Countries

August 2016

WorldCat on a global scale482 languages represented in WorldCat, including:

August 2016

61% Non-English

39% English

English 142 Million

German 47 Million

French 34 Million

Spanish 17 Million

Chinese 11 Million

Japanese 10 Million

Italian 8 Million

Dutch 6 Million

Russian 5.4 Million

Swedish 4.7 Million

Polish 4.4 Million

Hebrew 4.4 Million

55 countries

7,340 borrowers7,585 lenders

16,028,833 lending requests

7,533,706 borrowing requests

OCLC and the Library of Congress (LC)Ongoing:• Registering LC’s collection in WorldCat• NACO node for LC Name Authority File• PCC task groups

Collaborative activities:• Consultation on drafts of BIBFRAME• Reconciliation of Work IDs• Modelling for “place” in bibliographic

descriptions

Metadata Management

WWW

CBS – Metadata Hub

NLA

ABES

BSZ

UnityUK

BnF

SwissBib

HeBISGBV

DNB

KB GGC

ISNI

National Libraries

Regional Centers

WWW

Transition to WorldShare

NLA

ABES

BSZ

UnityUK

BnF

SwissBib

HeBISGBV

DNBISNI

National Libraries

Regional Centers

WorldShare Platform

Te Puna

UKB

SA Cat

WWW

Innovation through VIAF

• A merged view of the world’s authorityfiles

• Started in 2002, online for a decade;40 sources

• 180M source records• Integral to FRBR processing of

Worldcat; most highly used linked datasource for libraries

Virtual International Authority File

Libraries

Text Rights

Music RightsTrade Sources

Encyclopaedias

Researchers & Professional

cross-domain bridging-domains

Archive / museums(coming)

Library linked data is not…

A solution forall challengesA solution forall challenges

ContextualIntuitiveInternationalCollaborativeShareable in the open Web

...about improving discovery

ContextualIntuitiveInternationalCollaborativeShareable in the open Web

...about improving discovery

But it is...

WorldCat Person Entity Lookup Pilot“Search”API usingtext string

Janet A. Smith

Name Authority File 2

Janet B. A. Smith

Name Authority File 1

Janet B. Adam Smith

Name Authority File 3

Janet Adam SmithName Authority File 4

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janet smith

National Libraries and OCLC Research

Thank you